Any Doctor Who Fans? **UK AIR-DATE SPOILERS ABOUND** — Page 38

Here is the new extended season 5 trailer. Just look at the caliber of guest stars. WOW!


The One Thing You NEVER Put In A Trap

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Spidey, it's worth noting that Who's budget has been significantly reduced - hence the hospital ward with no one in it, for instance, and the, erm, "special" special effects in the initial TARDIS-flying-around sequence.

That said, I thought the multiform was kind of awesome whenever it got the voices "wrong". The man barking was such a cool, arresting image.

The plot of this episode was pretty derivative and lame overall, but it was just there as a frame upon which to hang our introduction to Eleven and Amy, and in that respect it succeeded mightily. I like Matt Smith already - despite being younger than Tennant, he easily comes off as more mature, his tics and weirdness more organic and less WATCH ME GRIMACE AND SPIT A LOT.

The first fifteen minutes with little Amelia had exactly the kind of fairy tale atmosphere Moffat was clearly going for. Eleven is basically the best imaginary friend ever - weird and funny and able to help with the scary crack in the wall. And best of all, when you're an adult he turns out to be a real alien who wants to take you in his madman's box to see the universe! What a perfect character introduction to win over children and children disguised as adults.

This version of New Who is already lacking some of the sour misanthropy that RTD's curdled into - witness the treatment of Rory and poor porn-loving Jeff - and while Moffat could do better than repeating his own jokes, when his humor was original it really worked.

And Karen Gillan is just wonderful - I love how clearly odd Amy is, and how pretty much her entire village knows that she's weird and indulges it. Oh, Amy's closed a car door on a man's tie? Just another Tuesday. :P On top of having the usual companion qualities of resourcefulness and courage she's also an evasive, commitment-phobic liar, and I think that's awesome.

The BBC has less funding overall even with money made off of Doctor Who, so it has less money to give and it's cutting spending for everyone, that show included. If you want to talk the Brits into a higher license fee, feel free. :P

I imagine that BBC America would have something to say about that.

Unless BBC America's site would get all that stuff. In which case, we wouldn't have to rely on the U.K. sites.

In which case, there wouldn't be much of a difference between the two sites.

In which case...that would explain why they both have different 'exclusive' videos. Although the feature in the U.K. are better by a lot.

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I've been reading a bunch of reviews about 'the Eleventh Hour' and Matt Smith and still haven't seen it yet. Two more weeks...

On another note, Neil Gaiman wrote a rather cute blog about Doctor Who:

Neil Gaiman's Journal: How to Mortify Your Daughter

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You know what?!?! In the season premier, the multiform said to beware "the silence." And, one of the monsters coming up this season looks EXACTLY like the monsters in the Buffy episode called "Hush," where the whole town goes silent. Could this be the same monster?

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Yes, the Smilers.




Watch the extended trailer I posted and they are at 1:32. Now that I watched the trailer again, they don't look "exactly" like the Smilers but pretty damn close.

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Updated On: 4/6/10 at 11:04 PM

In regards to Neil's post: that would never happen in my family, although if I wanted I could probably do something similar to my younger sister. I just thought that was cute and, hey, now his daughter's got one more thing to talk about with those guys.

I'm really excited about Hamlet. Granted, I've seen it already, but that was on the computer and I always like to see things on a proper television. (That might explain why I still haven't seen the Eleventh Hour yet.)

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Sounds like you have a Dr Who marathon coming up - on 17th April, BBC America:

"...will show the final half of Series 4, starting with The Doctor's Daughter and going right through to Journey's End. From 1.30pm it moves onto the gap year specials with The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, taking viewers to the end of the Tenth Doctor's time on the show.
At 8pm it will show Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide, described as a "BBC America original, all-access look inside the universe of the world's biggest, most successful sci-fi television program", before launching Matt Smith to the American public with The Eleventh Hour at 9pm ET."

Full details at Gallifrey Newsbase

Updated On: 4/8/10 at 12:56 PM

As a lead into next week's premier, The End of Time is on again tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

Also, ITunes has a 9 minute preview of the new series, available as a free download. Just do a search for Doctor Who.

STORY TIME!!!

I went to a comic book store in Philly I have never been to before (just moved here) and saw they had some DOCTOR WHO comics. Well, out of curiosity, I started moving other comics to see if one might have got misplaced and came across "The Forgotten" graphic novel that was (until recently) discontinued and I practically did a jig in the store and stopped myself from screaming.

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